Motivational Quotes

Courage

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

- Gilder, Richard Watson

Best Quotes about Courage

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

11.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

12.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

16.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

17.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

18.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

19.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

21.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

24.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

25.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

37.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike